Re: PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

On Thursday 23 June 2005 14:21, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Denis, all,
>
> > I got to thinking it¹d be kewl if PgAdmin3 supported an interactive
> > debugger for pl/pgsql.  If anyone¹s interested in expertly tackling such
> > a community project, with some financial sponsorship from EDB, please
> > contact me privately.
>
> Just FYI, EMS Hitech has a windows-only PL/pgSQL debugger. So it's
> apparently possible even with the current tech.
>

IIRC thier debugger is little more than BEGIN; SELECT foo(); ROLLBACK; which
isn't great as far as debuggers go.

> Overally, though, we'd want to support something command-line like the Perl
> debug shell. Then any tool could use it.

Uh... a lot of tools have issues executing stuff from the command line... what
we need is something sql driven, or at least that opeates at that level,
inside the db.

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Robert Treat
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